Together with her co-authors Leah Litman of the University of Michigan School of Law and Katherine Shaw of Penn Carey School of Law, @profmmurray.bsky.social won the 2026 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law for the academic paper, “Unsettling the Presidency.”
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 17h agoFed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
Trump owes more than $100 million in unpaid taxes, so this is just a giant free check he gave to himself with taxpayer dollars
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
From today’s “Letters from an American” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-4-2... Full carousel on Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/Dbp-BzpFoR... #lettersfromanamerican #heathercoxrichardson #protectdemocracy #factsmatter
This is a very important read and should not be buried by election news.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12h agoAugust 4, 2026
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
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Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
American Gestapo
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15h agoJudge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Another disaster from our incompetent Builder-in-Chief.
Another day where the president & other national Republicans get to sh*t on cities/urban voters & we have <exactly none> of the National Conversations™️ about Civility, Tone, Respect for/Reaching out to Real Folkz, or the GOP’s problem of not offering enough Moderate Solutions on Kitchen Table Issues
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Max Miller was a key Trump aide in 2020 who helped plan the Jan 6 rally. He was deep in that business, he heard all the plans. And then he disappeared mid-rally, when the violence started to unfold over at the Capitol, and never plausibly explained what he was doing. See 🧵 x.com/capitolhunte...
The BBC wants President Trump to explain his “executive privilege” response to every request in the ongoing defamation case. trib.al/wTbXyt0
BBC Demands More Records on Jack Smith’s January 6 Report
The BBC wants President Trump to explain his “executive privilege” response to every request in the ongoing defamation case.
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𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨 Trump's #ICE thugs have been caught in yet another lie. Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, 51, a passenger in the van of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo when he was brutally murdered by ICE was released from custody. He disputes all of their claims. The government has lied repeatedly to us! Speak out!
David Frum Said This July 30 2026. Frum Was The Former Speech Writer For George W. Bush........
😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:
😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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Our successful Charlottesville lawsuit became a political football in the story of Paul Weiss’ transformation (including the scrubbing of its website). If you want the facts, the IFA website is still live and unchanged: www.integrityfirstforamerica.org
Hudsonette@hudsonette.bsky.social · 3d agoFeel sick after reading that NYT piece on Paul Weiss. They would’ve easily won against Trump’s order. So you lose some clients. Make a few million dollars less. Never collaborate with fascists. Do not scrub your website of all the tremendous good you did for humanity just to appease the monsters.
Genuinely looks like a scene from a Batman movie where a cartoonishly evil villain somehow makes it onto mainstream media to rant against the establishment.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
I saw someone say they should have cut off the interview but this rant with the chyron below is brutal for him
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
Capital One Financial fights back over litigation tied "decision to close the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money laundering experts...Marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns" to Trump family. Via Reuters
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
My freedom caucus opponent has promoted false healthcare narratives, using them as justification to sponsor the bills allowing the execution of women who have abortions. I have dedicated my career as a pharmacist to pushing back against these dangerous falsehoods to protect patients from harm.
Now, the Trump administration is withholding those funds, forcing thousands of children to navigate deportation proceedings without legal counsel while further burdening an already backlogged immigration court system. It's cruel and counterproductive. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Thousands of immigrant children risk losing lawyers after Trump aid cuts
More than 20,000 unaccompanied children risk going to US immigration court alone after federal funding cuts
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Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine has it figured out. I couldn't agree more. Fuck fascism.
